Setting up the Job Posting

Once the Job Posting source is determined, the actual Job Posting creation begins in the SAP Fieldglass application. The first page within the UI is shown as "Setup", and it is here that the user will populate the master data and baseline parameters for the Contingent procurement request.

The Job Posting Setup page requires the start and end dates, site, location, business unit, and cost center be input.

A key data and process element within the creation of the Job Posting is the completion of the written "Description" section on the requisition. While descriptions are initially derived from the selected Job Posting template, users can modify and further specify that description at the time of creation to ensure requirements are clear to their supply base for proper response. Historically, the process of updating these descriptions could be time consuming and required specialized knowledge and expertise from users within the application. This aspect caused job descriptions to be shorter than ideal, causing suppliers to misunderstand requirements for a job posting, and ultimately reflecting unsuitable or under-qualified job seekers to be submitted. This led to extra work for Hiring Managers and longer cycle times for the company’s overall hiring process.

To resolve this operational issue, SAP Fieldglass provides an AI-Enhanced Job Description feature that can be leveraged during both Job Posting and Job Posting Template creation. Users in the application can use generative AI to produce or enhance more complete and relevant job descriptions in SAP Fieldglass. Users are given control of the information they provide for the AI job posting description generation. Their information options include job title, existing job description, and skills/qualification data.  

This feature allows employees to see improved productivity amongst their teams, streamlining processes and reducing users operational time crafting effective job descriptions. This also provides suppliers with clearer understanding of job requirements to better submit job seekers who closely match these requirements, reducing the volume of unsuitable candidates submitted per role.  

Within SAP Fieldglass, a high percentage of Job Posting Templates are typically written in English. Therefore, users manually translate these descriptions into other languages when needed to help suppliers clearly understand requirements. Like the enhancement AI feature highlighted earlier, SAP Fieldglass provides a generative AI feature that translates job posting descriptions seamlessly within the standard SAP Fieldglass workflow. The system automatically detects the language used in the job posting description and translates it to the user's configured profile language. 

This helps reduce time spent in manual translations, aids in standardizing and streamlining processes, while providing supplier clarity as well as global scalability for operational program expansions.

Depending upon the status of some Workers associated with a particular position, a Job Posting may display what’s called the Potential Candidates widget to show Workers who may be available to fill that position.

The Potential Candidate link will reflect if any candidates are already available to fill this position.

These Workers will fall into one of four categories.

The potential candidates alert can be selected by the user to view a list of Workers that fit any of the below criteria.